The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-Simon Van Booy
"Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories"
Quotations
Silence
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
-Thomas Carlyle
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
-Confucius
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
-Norman Maclean
"A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
-Louise Bourgeois
Not everyone talks in words.
-Nema Al Araby
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Sometimes silence can be the loudest thing.
-Ellie Mathews
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
-Adrienne Rich
"Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying"
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
